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Merde! Gordon Ramsay moves in on the French

GORDON RAMSAY is to turn the dining tables on French culinary snobs by setting up a restaurant in Paris dedicated to the joys of British food.

Its aim will be to deliver the best of British cooking in the heart of haute cuisine. All the produce will be British and specialities will range from Aberdeen Angus beef to Balmoral venison and Cornish sea bass.

"I've had a belly-full of the French coming over here and telling us how s*** our food is," says Ramsay in an interview in today's Sunday Times News Review. "We have cheese on toast, they have croque-monsieur. They just have posher names. I think we should have a British stake in Paris. And all the produce will be from the British Isles."

The restaurant signifies Ramsay's latest attempt to turn himself into a global brand following the opening of restaurants in New York and Tokyo. He